Condensed Materia Medica

Helonias Dioica helon.

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Mind

Dull, inactive.
Restless, wants to be continually moving about.
Desire to be let alone; conversation is unpleasant.
Dull, gloomy.
Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction or receive any suggestions in relation to any subject.
Fault finding.
Always better when doing something, when the mind is engaged.

Sensorium

Pain in the head is increased by stooping, and attended by increased vertigo.

Inner Head

Fulness and pressure in the forehead or vertex; worse or renewed, when thinking thereof.
Passing pain in one or both temples (in small spot).
Burning in front and top of head, better motion and mental exertion, worse when either is desisted from.

Face

Pale, earthy.

Tongue, etc

Bitter, disagreeable taste, every morning, 5 A.M., on awaking; tongue and fauces dry.
Tongue white. θ Diabetes.

Mouth

Salivation of pregnant women and teething children.
Mouth gets sore; stomatitis materna.

Desires and Aversions

Loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp, and painful congestion of the stomach.
Appetite poor, food tasteless; "bilious" sleepy, during the day.

Nausea and Vomiting

Tasteless eructations; flatulence, each causing nausea.
Nausea at supper.

Stomach

Cramp-like pain in the stomach.
Burning in stomach; burning and aching in spine; eructations.
Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.

Hypochondria

Pain in left side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended, causing a dull ache.

Abdomen

Motion and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on; cramps in the stomach.
Colic-like pains in hypogastric region, off and on all day.
Burning in the lower third of abdomen.

Stool, etc

Stool: loose, yellow in the morning; lumps of feces in the evening.

Urine

Constant aching, extreme tenderness of the kidneys, especially the right.
Burning sensation at the kidneys; can trace their outlines by the burning.
At 2.30 P.M., dull heat, and pressure in the vertex, as if skull were too full.
Weariness, languor, weight in the region of the kidneys; mind dull, inactive; afternoon and evening.
Burning-scalding when urinating; desire frequent and urging.
Strangury.
Involuntary discharge of urine after the bladder seemed to be emptied.
Urine: profuse, clear, light-colored; albuminous; diabetic.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire and power increased.
Erections unusually strong and frequent.
Impotence.

Female Sexual Organs

Loss of sexual desire and power with or without sterility.
Profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and weight in the womb; "a consciousness of a womb".
Dragging weakness in sacral region, with prolapsus; also at climaxis, with marked debility; profound mental gloom.
Prolapsus uteri and ulceration of the cervix; discharge constant, dark, badly-smelling; flooding on lifting a weight, and on least exertion; face sallow, having an expression of suffering; great vaginal irritation; pain in small of back.
Prolapsus uteri, leucorrhœa; the os protrudes externally.
Uterus low down, fundus tilted forwards; the finger passes with difficulty between the os and the rectum.
Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood.
Flow passive; dark, coagulated, offensive.
Amenia, arising from or accompanied by disordered digestive apparatus and anæmia.
Scanty menstrual flow, with heaviness, languor, drowsiness and albuminous urine.
Great uterine hemorrhage all through the proving; pain in back, through to the uterus.
Profuse flooding, with serous leucorrhœa, much uterine and ovarian pain; climaxis.
Leucorrhœa, with atony and anæmia.
Labia and pudendum hot, red, swollen, burning and itching and terribly; epidermis every morning falls of in thin, transparent exfoliations. Mucous surface of labia red, swollen, covered with a curdy deposit, like aphthæ.

Pregnancy

Threatened abortion; especially in habitual abortion.
Albuminuria during pregnancy: great weakness, drowsiness.
Nipples sensitive, painful, breasts swollen; nipples tender, will not bear the pressure of ordinary dress.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitations.

Outer Chest

Chest sensitive to the air.
Aching, as if the front of chest had been compressed in a vice.

Neck and Back

Burning and heat in the dorsal region, mostly between the lower half of the scapulæ; while sitting reading, at night.
Back aches across the lumbar region; feels tired and weak; burning and tired aching in lumbar and sacral region on sitting down.
Pain about the upper part of the sacrum and pelvis; more severe at night.
Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus; piercing drawing.
Aching pain in sacrum, also down into each buttock.

Lower limbs

Severe pains in the right hip-joint, worse during motion.
Numbness in feet, going off by motion, only felt when sitting still.

Position, etc

Motion: 1, 3, 33, 40. Moving arms: 40. Sitting: 31, 33. Stooping: 2.

Nerves

Tired, weary, drowsy.
Languor, unusually tired, yet knows no reason.
Debility. θ After diphtheria.

Sleep

Drowsy, heavy.
Sleep during the day.

Time

Morning: 11, 20, 23. Afternoon: 21. Evening: 20, 31. Night: 31. Day: 14, 19.

Temperature and Weather

Oversensitive to air: 30. Room: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body, caused by motion of arms.
Flushed of heat pass over him with every movement while in a room.

Sides

Right: 21, 33. Left: 8. Below upwards: 33.

Tissues

Anæmia, atony, from prolonged hemorrhage.
Dropsy from albuminuria, general debility, uterine atony or after uterine hemorrhage.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure of clothing: 24.

Stages and States

Women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury; feel better when the attention is engaged, hence when doctor comes; worn out with hard work, do not care for sleep; so tired, and the strained muscles burn and ache so.
Climaxis.

Relationship

Relieves the mental depression resulting from abuse of Kali brom.
Relieved prolapsus, caused by Lilium.
Collateral relations: Veratr., Sabad., Colchic.